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Both finances and elections come down to an accounting problem, keeping track of money or votes over time. Maybe we can learn something from technology used for finances and apply it to elections to minimize fraud.

Walter Bradley has been many things: scientist, professor, NASA researcher, proponent of reconciliation of faith and science, and a leader in empowering people in Africa with appropriate technologies. Walter Bradley is not a household name, but in a fairer world he would be.

Many people think that AI happens without human intervention. In reality, many toiling workers help make it possible. Human workers often manually label vast amounts of data, so that algorithms can process it. It may not really be AI doing the work.

Judea Pearl, a winner of the Turing Award (the “Nobel Prize of computing”), has argued that, “All the impressive achievements of deep learning amount to just curve fitting.” Finding patterns in data may be useful but it is not real intelligence.